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Oh, my gosh. What a cute post. I think you'd agree with me that he's the smartest 20 month old ever! (Don't we always think our grandchildren are the smartest and cutest?) The garden provides to many different learning experiences. Learning colors, counting and following directions, to name three.

I went back and added that I ate some, but he didn't want to at first. When he finally did, he spit it back out. LOL He likes some kinds of vegetables, but this is the boy who said, "Yuck" and spit out yellow squash last week. Today, he picked the squash out of his soup without comment, but ate the rest, which had some chopped tomatoes in it.

Hello Sue ! Thank you for leaving so many comments and really looking at my sky pictures : )Your grandson looks the picture of my son when he was that age .. too darn cute ! LOLI think he may grow up to loving veggies ? .. I wish I had done that more with my son now BIG sigh ! LOL

He is adorable and following directions very well (except for the 'don't dump out' part!). Kids love to dump things out though, don't they! I loved this post, and it's nice to see how the garden can help him learn so many things!

What a good worker! And so young too! I wondered if he would eat them, sometimes that squishiness and seeds are not the textures appealing to little ones. I wouldn't eat a tomato until an adult LOL What a cutie! :-)Frances

Oh this reminds me of when my girls were small and they would graze their way through the veg and fruit plants and then refuse their dinner! And then I'd go out next day and wonder how everything ripe had gone...I forget little snippets like that until I'm reminded, so thank you!

What a wonderful entry. A DAY the children WILL NEVER forget. I still remember my garden experiences from childhood. I was thinking once the kids went back to school I would have more time to blog and visit my blogging friends. SO MUCH FOR THAT IDEA... I have been super busy canning.

What a wonderful entry. A DAY the children WILL NEVER forget. I still remember my garden experiences from childhood. I was thinking once the kids went back to school I would have more time to blog and visit my blogging friends. SO MUCH FOR THAT IDEA... I have been super busy canning.

Awww, what a cutie, and smart too! Hope some caterpillars show up there soon. Now I have swallowtail cats! And guess what? You were right, what I thought were salvias were penstemons! I forgot I had planted them! Like you, winter is much too long, and never seems to end while summer flies by. Darn! The older I get, the worse I hate to see cold weather arrive.

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I am married with 2 grown children, two grandsons, and a granddaugher. We live in the house on a corner lot that my husband grew up in. I have been talking him out of more grass over time in order to increase space for gardening. We have veggies, annual, biennial and perennial flowers, some wild and/or native, and herbs sharing growing areas. A number of years ago, we had to have the tree in our front yard cut down, and I put mostly native plants in this area. I love seeing insects, especially bees and butterflies frequent the blooms, and have some plants for the caterpillars to eat.

Certified 10/09

Pussytoes

Amsonia hubrichtii

Golden alexanders

Purple milkweed

Purple poppy mallow

Narrowleaf mountain mint

Rattlesnake master

7/17/13

Short-toothed mountain mint

7/18/13

Echaneaceas paradoxa and pallida

7/22/13

Wild quinine

7/19/13

Whorled milkweed

7/20/13

Ironweed

7/25/13

Wild senna

7/25/13

Grayhead coneflower 7/25/13

7/25/13

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